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These stories were meant to be heard.

Over the weekend of the 13th to the 15th March 2015, Aberystwyth Arts Centre will host an unedited bi-lingual day-long illustrated telling of the four branches of Y Mabinogi. The stories will be told by Welsh/Welsh based storytellers Cath Little, Christine Cooper, Dafydd Davies Hughes, Fiona Collins, Guto Dafis and Michael Harvey. There will be a specially commissioned exhibition of visual art featuring Ceredigion based illustrators, and Maria Hayes will be drawing live and projecting her drawings during the telling, so creating a second exhibition. The project will include a talk by Sioned Davies, discussions, papers, informal tales, a twmpath, cake from the cafe, and will be curated by Peter Stevenson.

Glendon S. Farquhar: 'Dating the Four Branches'; Nely Elys van Seventer: 'Efnisien and the Nordic Tradition'; Rowan Zhao: 'The Function of Time Indicators in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi';

Kit Kapphahn and Kate Leach: 'Exile and Agency for the Women of the Four Branches'; Jackie Burek: 'Narrative and Memory in the Four Branches'; Rhun Emlyn: 'The Historical Background to the Mabinogi'; Michael Harvey: title tbc; Sioned Davies: title tbc; Huw Owen: title tbc

Cinema Sinema

11.00 Rhun Emlyn: 'The Historical Background to the Mabinogi-11.20 Glendon S. Farquhar: 'Dating the Four Branches-11.40 Rowan Zhao: 'Classifying the Four Branches of the Mabinogi; a discussion of genre-12.00 Michael Harvey; 'Performing Y Mabinogi – a storyteller's perspective-12.30 Lunch13.30 Sioned Davies; 'Translating the Mabinogi; some challenges-14.00 Kit Kapphahn and Kate Leach: 'Exile and Agency for the Women of the Four Branches-14.20 Jackie Burek: 'Narrative and Memory in the Four Branches-14.40 Tea Te15.00 Jeremy Turner; 'Page to Stage; Dragging traditional material back to life-15.20 Nely van Seventer; 'Efnisien and the Nordic Tradition.'15.40 Fiona Collins; 'The Storytellers standing behind us as we speak...'5.00pm Film Ffilm; Otherworld, 2002. Cinema Sinema.7.45pm Sharron Kraus a Harriet Earis; Friends and Enemies; Lovers and Strangers: SongsInspired by the Mabinogi. Performance Studio Stiwdio Perfformiad;